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TRAVELLt&G. It is sxid, that jta no faftaer year has ] there taen eo touch traveling within the j ( tilled SIMM, as during the present year; I laitlMi«ot>is ascertained with certainty, froOa the records of steamboats, rail-roads, &c. Hie increase has been remarkable— uearly double that of any preceding year. Not only has land trarel increased, but that across the ocean between the two conliirentr has been much augmented the present season. Emigration to this coun- j try has not perhaps, been so great, —hut passing to and fro for pleasure and obser vation; has-been excessive. ■ ft may be * curious question for decis ion, whether the greatly increased facil ity* of travelling are a cause or effect in thin order of things, —whether the press ing demands for the means of travelling head urged into being the improved and multiplied facilities, or vice versa. The I troth of the case probably is, that the speed, ease and comfort which the activity of invention has furpished to the hands ot is the principal moving cause in this! matter. A great prbportiou of the travel- j ling at this day n fancy travelling- Every I inducement is held out to all "to push along keep moving.” Our packets and ; steamboats have become palaces —their ] cabins, parlours furnished with all the j elegancies and luxuries of stationary life. Our car-trains have become moving j cifrra, —4beir accommodations, commodi-! ous sitting rooms provided with cushion and mirror by day, and lamp and couch j by night. Space, in the new order ot, things, seems to be forgotten, —and time is entirely kicked out of the question. Steam! steam is the great motive at the bottom of all this, —a power, which, a few years ego, wasted all its mighty strength in “the desert air, now moves the world eri masse. Wood and water now supply the place of bone and muscle; —the wild ly enslaved horse may now he turned out to run at freedom in his native wilds, — rtnd the winds of heaven may almost lull themselves into an eternal calm as no lon ger required by the wants of man. The nice calculator may discover in all this progression, an influence unfavor able to the advancement of mortality,— a subtraction from the aggregate of indus try —temptations to the spending ot time and money, too general among the mass, | —and an increased facility, and a broad-! field opened, for the indulgence of habits of dissipation and dishonest operations There is nothing without its disadvantag es on one side; but they should recollect, that the plans for moral improvement, the) philanthropic and religious enterprises which distinguish the age, are all expedit ed by this facile order of things. Inter course, too k general, and from remote points, — it is the grand civilizer of man, j naturally savage, —and the ameliorator of j human society. Without it the world i would yet have been barbarous and un taught. All, then, should have inter- j course witli their fellow men, —the more] extensive the better. llis moral, social,; and professional wants require it. Who; has not had his head enlightened, his heart' bettered, and his hands strengthened, in the duties of his life, by going abroad among his fellow creatures, imbibing their views by direct intercourse, and glean mg from the broad field of human operations! God speed the means of human intercourse, then! —[Salem Obs, Administration of Was .ington.— "A generation has passed away since Washington closed his political life; and when we now review all the acts of his administration, the measures which he adopted, the principles which lie avowed, and the resolution upon which he acted, to make the patronage and ofliccrs sub servient to the interests of the whole coun try, and not to surrender them to the base and groveHing, and corrupting influences of party’; when we review these things, we cannot but confess ourselves struck with a reverential awe of his transcendent pu rity and greatness. He gave no oflice whatsoever, except to merit and for merit —to private virtue, and for acknowledged talent, and for the [public good, lie con sidered the patronage of the government as a sacred trust, created for the good of the whole people, and to he employed for the good of the whole. It never entered his head to conceive, that the time could ever possibly arrive in this free land, in which the patronage of government could be employed to bring down the people to the footstool of their rulers, or to organ ize a biyui of oflice holders to manage clectrogg, or to intimidate or corrupt or Influence electors. In the presence of Washington, the man who should have given utterance to the suggestion of such a system, would have shrunk mto abso lute nothingness by a withering look, • which would have branded him as the foulest cf :;aka.v folds country. “There was a pure atmosphere then in llie regions of the balls and official resi dences of the government. Men breath ed ffeely then, and thought and acted as! freemen, who held their liberties in their ' own hands, and not at the uterev of ru-! lers; and the first attempt to trample upon them, would bare taught the usurpers the jesaou—'“who would he free, themselves must strike the blow." Let the young men of the present day read the history of the admit)Miration of Washington, so forcibly and truly written out in the pag es of Marshall. It wiH purify them from « thousand vague generalities. It will recall them to the principles on which the government was originally formed. It trill teach them the utter \vorth!e a snes? of all mere political fheoriw, and the inval liable authority of experience. It will teach them that no republic can be well or wisely governed, except by men of high intellect, comprehensive knowledge, in corruptible integrity, and disinterested patriotism. It will teach them that tlie demagogue is the worst enemy ol the people, and his kindred character, the courtier, is tlie worst enemy of the inon-j arch. It will teach them the truest course of ambition is to found its favors and j its honors not upon the huzza of the mul titude, but upon the solemn judgments, lof the wise and good, upon the distant I praise whose voice speaks from the hearts ] of millions, and gives hack from the tomb i the deep echoes of its own thankful-! incss.”—[New-York Quarterly Review. THE “KEY OK DEATH.” In the collection of the curiosities pre served in the Arsenal at Venice, there is a key, of which the following singular tra dition is related: About the year 1000, one of those dan gerous men, in whom ciftraordinary tal ent is only the fearful source of crime and wickedness beyond that ol ordinary men, catnc to establish himself as a liter- ! chant or trader in Venice. The stran ger, whose name was Tebaldo, became enamored of the daughter ot an ancient house, already affianced to another. He demanded her in marriage, and was ol course rejected. Enraged at this, he stud ied how to he revenged. Profoundly j skilled in the mechanical arts, lie allowed himself no rest until lie had invented the] most formidable weapon which could he j imagined. This was a key of a large] sizeflhe handle of which was so con- i structed, that it could be turned round with little dillicnlty. When turned, it discovered a spring, which on pressure, I launched from the other end a needle or L lancet, of such subtle fineness, that it en- j lered into the flesh and Imried itscil there i without leaving external trace. Tebaldo i waited in disguise, at the door of the, church in which the maiden whom lie ] loved was about to receive the iTnptial j benediction. The assassin sent the slen der steel, unpcrccived, into the breast of; the bridegroom. The wounded man had j no suspicion of injury, hut, seized with \ sudden and sharp pain in the midst ofj the ceremony, he fainted, and was carried] to his house amid the lamentations of the j bridal party. Vain was all the skill of the physicians, who could not diveuc the cause ol this strange illness, and in a few i days he died. Tcbaljbj,. again demanded the hand of the her parents, and receiv ed tyspqjp# jefusal. They too perished mlsel)]* io4?w days. The alarm w hich these. de;t)|iSt, which appeared almost mi raculous, occasioned, excited the utmost vigilance of the magistrates: and when on close examination of the bodies, the small instrument was found in the gan grened flesh, terror was universal; every one feared for his own life. The maiden, thus cruelly orphaned, had passed the first months of Iter mourning in a con vent, when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her to his will, entreated to speak with her at tiie grate. The face of the foreigner had been ever displeasing to her, but since the death of all those most dear to her, it became odious, (as though she had a presentiment of kis g"ih) and her reply was most decisive in the negative. Tebaldo, beyond himseif with rage, at tempted to wound her at (lie grate and suc ceeded; the obscurity of the place ; *e vented his movement from being observ [ed. On her return to her room the maid jeu felt a pain in her breast and uucover ■ ing it, she found it spotted with a single 1 drop of blood. The pain increased; the surgeons who hastened to her assistance, ! taught by the past, wasted nolitne m con jecture, but cutting deep, into the wound ed part, extracted the needle before any mortal mischief had commenced, and sai led the life of the lady. The state inqui | sit ion used every means to discover the 1 hand which dealt these msidumis and ir j resistible blows. The visit of Tebaldo to the convent caused suspicion to fill heav ily upon him. llis house was carefully searched, the infamous weapon discover ed, and he perished on the gibbet. Anecdote of Sre vm Navication. A j smart dapper little fellow, with a pattern i book under his arm, called in at one of our large carpet warehouses: I have come, I sir, for some orders, hero is my pattern book—should be happy to serve you.”— (The proprietor, after turning over the I leaves, said to the agent “Will you have i the goodness to leave this book for a day or two, and I will send it to your lodg ings.” I arrived in the Great * Western, Itook with me a valise and six clean shirts, ! only used three oil the passage. J have ran about from stOFcr to store until I have received orders for one thousand pieces of Brussels carpeting, you are the last per son I have called upon. lam constantly jon my feet. 1 dine, when lam at leisure, at any eatinghouse that is nigh, and I pay for uiy lodging at oigbt; so 1 have really no settled habitation, i must return m the Great Western to-morrow, as 1 shall j have been abseqt from home, when I get hack, full forty days. You are the last I j have called upon, and any orders you may j 1 please to give me ean be executed and j j sent to you complete jq six weeks from this per steam ship.” Commentary is use less. This travelling agent, in 24 days j from the time he left home, received or- ! ders for Sioo,ooo of carpeting.—[N. Y. I Evening Star 1 BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. Chinese Corn.— Mr. Grant Thorrurn, I of Htfiet’sCove, gives the following ac count of the accidental discovery of anew species of com Irom China, which he has . for sale: "Some three years ago, a merchant in New York, while emptying a box often, observed therein a few grains of corn. Concluding that corn from China must be something new under our tan, he had • them planted, so they grew and multiplied. —Last spring I received from a worthy j friend a portion of said corn—it s anew variety—so 1 gave it the name of China s fall prolific, or tree corn; as it strikes off in two, three, and frequently lour branches j in appearance like a small tree, ami pro duces an ear at the head ol each branch, whereas the common corn shoots out the ear from the side of the stalk, it grows from eight to ten feet high, produces an abundance of fodder, is a large w hite flint twelve row corn, and ears from lento] fourteen inches lung. I counted six luni-j dred and sixty grains on one ear; it was ! planted on the 10th of May, and had ears fit to boil on the I Oth of July, its pro duce was much curtailed by the long drought, but not withstanding I counted, two thousand one hundred and twenty grains, the product of one stalk; being an increase of two thousand from one. Antidotf. of Arsenic. —The perioxide of iron is said to he an efficient agent, in counteracting the effect of arsenic w hen 1 taken into the stomach. In a recent case, in this city, it was advantageously admin istered by Dr. It. 11. Thomas to a man named Biddle, w ho had in a mistake swal lowed twenty grains of arsenic. The first dose given was half a fluid ounce of the hydrate in the wet state, about the consistence of cream, in a tumbler of cool water, which was six hours after the ar senic had been swallowed. At the same time a large dose of magnesia was given which was repeated every two hours. The doses of the hydrate were repeated every ten or fifteen minutes in two ounces of water. In the course of ten hours the patient was considered out of dan ger, having taken eight ounces of the suspended hydrate, and three or four dos es of magnesia.— [Providence Courier. Great Salf. of Mokes Mclticaclis.— At the auction sale in Baltimore on the 4th inst; above 1:2!),000 Chinese Morns. Multicaulis trees were sold, at prices va rying from ‘JO to ill cents per foot, meas uring to the utmost extremity, and count ing the also. This amounts to -SI ‘-21 for each tree of five feet in height. So great is the demand, that it is proposed to have another large sale at that place. The auction sale at Germantown, Pa. 1 was attended by an immense concourse,: and the trees sold for above JO cents per 1 foot. The silk culture promises so abun dant a harvest to those who engage in it, that the demand for trees from every sec tion of the Union is far greater than the [supply, and if the whole crop of the en -1 suing season were now ready for sale, it would lie easy to find purchasers. At Burlington, N. J. where they have exten -1 sive cocooneries, a sale of 2.43 ) trees was ; made a few days since, In Mr. Gnuirnere for §2,•>!)!), and another of a thousand se lect trees for §2,003, being two dollars each.—f U. S. Gaz. ! L | A Dear Kiss. —A curious trial was re cently hell at Middlesex Session, in En gland. Thomas S.lreland, the prosecu tor stated, that on the day after Christ mas he was in the tap room where the defendant, Caroline Newton, and her sis ter, who had come from Birmingham, were present. 'Pile later jokingly ob served that she hud promised her sweet heart that no man should kiss her while | absent. It being holiday time, Suveland ! considered this a challenge, and caught hold of her and kissed her. The young ; woman took it as a joke, hut her sister, the defendant, said she would like as lit tle of that kind of fun as he pleased. Si ] velum! told her, if she was angrv he would kiss her also; he then tried to do it, and they fell to the ground. On rising, the woman struck him; he again tried to kiss her, and in the scuffle she hit oil'his nose, which she spit out of her mouth. The action was brought to recover damages for the loss of the nose. The defendant said lie had no business to kiss her. If she . wanted kissing she hud a husband to kiss her, a better looking man than ever the prosecutor was. The jury without hes j nation acquitted her; and the chairman | said, that if any man attempted to kiss a woman against her will, she had a right to bite off’iiis nose if she had a fancy for ] so doing. Mr. J. Duncan, watchmaker, at Glon luoc, has lately constructed a small steam ; engine, on the high pressure principle, tfie novelty of w hich consists in the steam ] acting twice m the cylinder before it es capes into the atmosphere, by which there is a saving of half the (uel and half the water which a common engine of the j same power would require. By the ap plication of the air-pump and condenser it can work on the low pressure with the 1 same saving. Some scientific men, who . have seen the plan, think it admirably I adapted for locomotive engines, or for i vessels making long voyages. Fact. A lady was asked at the Springs during the past season, " how she liked Crnhbe’s Tales.” “ I never knew that crabs had tales,” she with a look of grave aud innocent won der. Destruction of a Rhivocf.ros.— Some short time ago intelligence was received oil board 1 one of the company’s schooners,- cruising off Sugar Island, at the mouth of the river Hoogly, that a Rhinoceros had latterly infested the neighboring villages, and that the animal had destroyed several of the native roots. A beast of this kind ■ is seldom seen itr this quarter, though it j is impossible to ascertain how numerous j they may be in the interior of the island,! or in the suuderbuuds contiguous to it. j In conseipience of this information, Lieut Soiiter, and Mr. Lewis, an officer in the; pilot service, agreed to put, if possible, a stop to any further mischief there might arise from so formidable an enemy being suffered to remain at large, and, as they 1 were aware that neither muskets nor ri fles would have any immediate effect on the horny mail of the animal, they pro vided themselves with two six pounder 1 carrouades, which they contrived to con-j vey into an adjacent portion of the jungle,! close to a large tank, which the beast was! in the habit of nightly frequenting, in or-] der to slake his thirst. There waijorie' track which he favored, leaning down to] one of the sides of the t ink. Having di- ! reeled the guns to a particular spot in his path, loaded with grape, they, bv means of a rope ladder, ascended a soondree tree, 1 situated on the opposite side, from which 1 position they could conveniently com mand an opportunity of discovering, by the aid of the moon’s light, any animal that might pass that way Having wait ed patiently for more than two hours, they beheld a huge beast coming down the defile, when Lieut. Sotiter descended -by the 1 iddcr, and waiting a favorable i opportunity of bringing one of the guns to hear upon the beast, applied the fuse to it, and discharged the contents in a volley at the object. After some minutes they cautiously reconuoitered the spot. ] but could discover no signs of their hav-! mg done execution, and consequently re turned that night to the vessel. In the morning, however, attended by a com pany of Lascars, and some natives ol the ; neighborhood, they repaired t > the seme j ot the l ist night’s excursion, and oil ad ] vanciug some little way into the jungle, [they detected the beast apparently re ! dining at the base of a soondree tree. ; Not quite satisfied that he was dead, they ] ascended an adjacent tree, and discharg ed their rifles at him; but finding that lie remained motionless, the Lascars venlur-j ied to approach nearer to him, when they j j pronounced him lifeless. On examina-j tion, it was found that three of the shot, had penetrated deeply into iiis body. Be- j ing too cumberous to remove, they cut a] ! few strips or throngs from the hide, which , they brought away, and took to Calcutta ] ] as trophies of their success in ridding the ; villages of so formidable an enemy.—[En- ; Iglish Paper. A Dangerous Lady. La Matipin, the , successor of La Rochois, a celebrated | singer, may he noticed on account of her, j wild and lawless character, and tire strangeness of her adventures. She was horn in 1073, and married at a very early i age, l»ut soon ran away with a fencing; mister, from whom she learnt tlie use of] i tht: small sword. After remaining for ; some time at .Marseilles, where, she nur j rowly escaped the punishment of being ] burnt alive for setting fire to a convent, she went to Paris, appeared on the opera ] stage at the age of two and twenty, and j ] was for a considerable time the reigning I favorite of t lie day. H iving on some occasion been affronted by Dumeui, a sing : er, she put on male attire, watched for him in the Place des Victoires, insisted on iiis drawing the sword and fighting her; and o,i liis refusing, caned and took his watch and snuff box. Next day, Dumeni having | boasted in the opera house that he had j defended himself against three men who had attempted to rob him, she told the whole story, and produced his watch and .snuffbox in proofs of her having chastis ed him as a coward. Thevenard, another singer of note, was nearly treated in the same manner, and had no other way of escaping but by publicly begging her pardon, after hiding himself in the Palais Royal for three weeks.—[Hogarth’s Mem oirs of the Musical Drama. Revenue or Boston. The amount of revenue that w as secured, during the three first quarters of the yea; 1537, was, First qu.-.rter 1837, §753,451 05 Second do. do. 027,844 80 Third do. and >. 807,507 12 §2, 185,862 07 First quarter 1833, §483,3.i() ol) Second do. do. 465,765 84 Third do. do. estimated at 1)01.487 00 §1.037,553 33 Early Rising. The difference be tween rising every morning at six an 1 at height, in the course of forty years amounts to twenty-nine tnousand two hundred hours, or time years one hundred and twenty-one days and sixteen (mors, which are equal to eight hours a day for exactly ten years. So that rising at six w ill be the : same as if ten years of life (a weighty con sideration) were added, wherein we may command eight hours every day for the cultivation of our minds and the despatch of business. Divio end. The Bank of the State of] Georgia has declared a dividend of four ■ per ceut, on their capital, for the last six mouths. HOLLAND. Actuate correspondent of the New York A meric .in thus writes from Am sterdam: Every one who visits Amsterdam, makes an excursion to Saardam, the place where Peter the Great worked at ship building, in order to learn the art, and carry it to his own country. The book says that, "In JGO6.N singular personage presented himself at Saardam in the dress of u sailor, and hired himself as a ship wright to one of the builders. He ate, drank, slept and worked with the other carpenters, anti by his jocularity, and a certain superiority which he could not conceal, acquired the name of “Master Peter.” Several weeks elapsed ere it was suspected that Master Peter was any thing more than a journeyman shipwright, but when it was at length discovered that tin; Czar of all the Rnjssias was concealed under this mean appearance, his companions began to treat him with the respect due to his rank.—Master Peter, however, insisted that all their former familiarity should be resumed, and continued to associate with them, vntd he had become a good pilot, an excellent shipwright, and had thorough ly acquainted himself with the construc tion of every part of a ship of war.” I saw the ship-yard where he worked, also the small cottage where lie resided , it is now covered with a substantial build ing, in order to preserve it from the weather, and to hand it down to poster ity. It remains just as Peter left it. Hundreds of names of visiters, from Em perors down to simple cits, are written and carved upon the walls and weather boards. In running over some of them, I chanced to light upon that of my hus j band, with the date of 1822. Custom House Prodigality. —lt ap pears from the official documents sent to! Congress by Secretary Woodbury, that cert,on collectors of the revenue received last year from the treasury, in the form of salaries, $227,935‘(K), more than the whole amount of revenue collected by them! At Saco, Maine, four revenue officers received more than fifteen hun dred dollars, while they did not collect! one cent of revenue! At Edgartown, Mass, six revenue officers, three of whom received two thousand five hundred dol lars salary, collected only “ twenty-five cents!” At New Loudon, six officers, were employed, who were paid more; than four thousand dollars, while the amount returned as collected by them I was one dollar and nineteen cents! At St. Mary’s, two officers were paid trcrlce\ hundred and thirty-six dollars, and col- j lected only one dollar and thirty-five \ cents ! Is it at all strange, (a cotemporary j well inquires,) when such things happen, j that tire expenditures of the government are “ retrenched” from $12,000,090 a year up to nearly $40,009,000? And is it at all strange, that, when hordes ofj salaried revenue officers are thus em-| ployed along the sea-coast to collect, not revenue, hut voters, the administration { should he able to carry a State like! Maine, which, with its inlets, has more sea-coast than any other three States in the Union !—[Newark D. Adv. I Now that the people are nearly satis- j tied as to what parties their represent a- ! fives from the various counties belong, it would he well to inquire, who of those j different parties are Internal Improve ment men. This subject will probably compose the leading feature of the coin ing Legislature, and upon which rests the main interests of the State, according to her present relative position with other cmninunitjes and other interests. Local feeling and party prejudices •within our j own borders will probably cause much j wrangling and disputation, hut we hope, and believe that there will he sufficient i talent, good sense and imparinlity, with ' enough of the energetic spirit of the age, ' to legislate for the good of the entire State, | and carry out her leading and important measures, and that without the enthral ment of sectional views, and narrowmind ed policy. The immense resources of our State are unquestioned, and it only wants an impetus and proper direction to he given towards developing them, by the State Legislature, for it to put in such j train as to insure ultimate and great sue-! cess. We look forward to the comple tion of such results with confidence and pleasure.—[Macon Post. Escape from Jail. —lnformation has; been received in this city, that Daniel \ r . \ Palmer, who was awaiting his trial in the jail of Jones county, for the murder of James Gunn, lias succeeded in effecting ; his escape. The governor has issued his l>!oclrmntion, offering a reward of $29!) for the apprehension of the fugitive, to, which as we understand, the brother ofj the deceased has added the further sum ; of We arc requested to state that the match race between Maj. Rowell’s Truf fle colt and Col. A. 11. Kenan’s for $599 aside, will come off over the Miiledgeville course <m the second day of the appro idl ing racer. Pine sport is anticipated, as there will he a large number of crack nags on the ground.—[Federal Union. The Globe says that the Locofocos will “die in the last breach,” and the New York Evening Post says tint they will “die in the first breach.'’ So it see,ns that they expect to die ill a pair of breeches. Some of them must make an important ndJition to their wardrobe first.— Lou. Jour. CORN TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN. Tfce great interest felt in this country (says UM Philadelphia Commercial List) in relation to the crop of wrhefet in England, and the rela tive duties accruing on foreign wheat imported into that country, has induced u« to publish t)ie following authentic , regulations, Under which the com trade of Great Britain is at present conducted: * of Jet 9 of George IV, Chapter GO. And whereas it is expedient Graih, Meal, and Flour, the growth/prodUce! and manufacture of any foreign country, or of any British possession out of Europe, should be allowed to he imported into the United Kingdom for consumptioni upon the payment of duties to be regulated from time to time, according to the average price of British Corn, made up and published in manner hereinafter r fT I i ' r fd 5 be it therefore enacted, that there shim be levied and paid to his Majesty, Upon all corn, grain, meal, and flour, entered (br home consumption in the United Kingdom from parts beyond the seas, the several duties specified and set forth in the tabic annexed to this act; and that the said duties'shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, in such and the same manner, in all respects, as the seve ral duties of customs mentioned and enume rated in the table of duties of customs inwards annexed. If imported from any Foreign Country. Wheat.— According to the average price of W heat, made up and published in manner required by law, videlicet: £ s . and. Whenever such price shall be G2s. and under 635. the qur. the duty shall * be per qur. ~ ' 1 4 8 i W hen the price is G3s. and under 645. 13 8 i When the price is 635. and under6ss. 128 When the price is 655. and under 665. 118 When the p.-ice is 665. and under 675. 1 0 8 i When the price is 675. and under 68s. 0 18 8 When the price is 68s. and underdOa. 0 16 8 When the price is 695. and undet,7o*. 0 13 8 When the price is7ls.andunder 725. 5 6 8 When the price is 725. and under 73a. 0 2 8 When the price is or above 735. (110 When under 625. and not under 61s. 1 5 8 And in respect to each integral shilling, or any part of each integral shilling, by which such price shall be under Gls. such duty shall ! be increased Is. A FRIGHTFUL STEAM-BOAT DISAS TER.—FORTY-THREE LIVES LOST. The London correspondent of the Philadel phia Inquirer has sent a letter by the Royal William, detailin'; the following particulars of a most appalling steamboat disaster. “ The Forfarshire steamer, 100 horse power, from Hull to Dundee, was dashed to pieces on Wednesday last on a rock, when, mel’tii elioly to relate, 43 persons found a watery grave. About 4 o’clock on Thursday, blowing hard from the N. E. and showering rain and sleet, the boiler gave way, which was the cause of the sad catastrophe. The captain was observed with his wife in his arms, cling ing to the wreck, when a sea came and swept them oft. Among those who perished were a gentleman and his family belonging to Dun dee, who were returning from St. Petersburg after a residence there of fourteen years. There wene 22 cabin passengers, % 9 steerage, (including 4 children) and 22 of a crew, mak ing in all 53 persons, out of which only ten were saved to tell the tale. The captain, John Humble, was considered an excellent man, and was much esteemed, while the con duct of his mate is the subject of severe com ment. When the danger first appeared, he, followed by four of the crew, took to the boat, and shortly after it had put off, the vessel struck and parted in two, the stern drifting southward, and the fore part remaining on the rock.” I send you the? following instance of female intrepidity, in connexion with the above mourn ful catastrophe. William Darling, the keeper of the outer lighthouse on the Longstonc rocks, observed the wreck about five o’clock in the morning— that is, about two hours after the vessel had struck. From the fineness of the weather, he could not discover whether there were anv men upon it. Between seven and eight, A. M. he at last perceived some men, and asked his daughter, Grace Horsley Darling, to accompa ny him in a cobble boat, with a view to assist and save the unfortunate people. She at once consented. It may be remembered that Darl ing was quite certain he would not be able to get back to the light house, without the help of some of the men lie saw on the rock, and his calculation of returning was founded on that assumption. He and his daughter, anti cipating such help, left Mrs. Darling to attend to the light house, and rowed their little boat round by the southern sides of the three inter vening rocks, to the spot where they saw the shipwrecked persons. This was about a mile upwards, and the sea was all broken water. When the men on the rock saw a young slen der woman pulling the boat to their rescue, their joy was almost frantic. Darling and his daughter succeeded in get ting the boat to a spot where they could gel a landing, and took Mrs. Dawson, and four of' the men, and brought them to the light house. Here darling left his daughter, Mrs. Dawson, and two of the men, nnd took tvm of the men back to the rock, and brought the remaining four persons. The danger was most immi nent, but the experiment was successful. This is one of the noblest instances recorded of fe male heroism—and the writer, who saw this young woman, was struck with the singular modesty of this courageous female. It is to be hoped that this act of self-devotion will be duly rewarded. A boat put off from North Sunderland the same morning, but Darling had already effected the deliverance of the unfortunate people. New York. —The value of real and personal estates, in New York, has, within the last three years, been fixed by the assessors nearly as follows —lNjii was a year tolerably prosperous, whert tlie value was estimated at $309,000,000. lu 1837, the year of the revulsion, the value fell to $263,000,000. During this year, as we learn from the Sunday News, the value has increased more than half a million. The next year, it is antici pated, theretwvill be a considerable in crease. Gov. Everett, in his speech at New Bed ford hi behalf of the Bunker Hill tnonu merit, said : “ Had X the wealth of the In dies, and the strength of a giant, l would c irrv the top of that shaft beyond the flight ot the Eagles—nay, I would raise it to the home of the sunbeams!”